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Am 1. Januar 2016 wird in Frankreich die regionalpolitische und administrative Einheit Elsass aufgelöst. Sie hatte, von den reichsdeutschen Zwischenzeiten abgesehen, seit dreieinhalb Jahrhunderten in unterschiedlichen Formen Bestand. Das Land mit seiner sehr besonderen Geschichte und Bevölkerung wird nun in eine Großregion eingebettet sein, die von der Ile de France bis zum Rhein reicht. Was wird die Umarmung mit sich bringen? Sind weitere Verluste an Eigenart zu erwarten? Die Anfänge der Geschichte können Sie in dem folgenden Beitrag kennen lernen.

Abstract In a mental rotation task, children 5 and 6 years of age and adults had to decide as quickly as possible if a photograph of a hand showed a left or a right limb. The visually presented hands were left and right hands in palm or in back view, presented in four different angles of rotation. Participants had to give their responses with their own hands either in a regular, palms‐down posture or in an inverted, palms‐up posture. For both children and adults, variation of the posture of their own hand had a significant effect. Reaction times were longer the more awkward it was to bring their own hand into the position shown in the stimulus photograph. These results, together with other converging evidence, strongly suggest that young children's kinetic imagery is guided by motor processes, even more so than adults'.

What kind of relationship do we have with artificial beings (avatars, puppets, robots, etc.)? What does it mean to mirror ourselves in them, to perform them or to play trial identity games with them? This volume addresses these questions from artistic and scholarly angles. Contributions on the making of »technical others« and philosophical reflections on artificial alterity are flanked by neuroscientific studies on different ways of perceiving living persons and artificial counterparts. The contributors have achieved a successful artistic-scientific collaboration with extensive visual material.